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Obalúayé

Obalúayé - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jide Badmus, Martins Deep (Artist), Priscilla Celina Suarez (Cover Design by)Publish date:2022-08-01Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Flowersong PressISBN-13:9781953447487ISBN-10:1953447481UPC:9781953447487Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AfricanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCCY4AC29G

Obaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing.

The poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude.


This collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic.

Obaluaye is a realization that "life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid" and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave.




Language:EnglishPublisher:Flowersong PressISBN-13:9781953447487ISBN-10:1953447481UPC:9781953447487Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AfricanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCCY4AC29G
Publisher: Flowersong Press

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